Highly flexible and stable plasmonic nanopaper comprised of silver nanocubes and cellulose nanofibres was fabricated through a self-assembly-assisted vacuum filtration method.

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Optical security labels play a significant role in protecting both our wealth and health. However, simultaneously meeting the requirements including low-cost fabrication, easy detection, and high-level security is still challenging for security labels. Here, we design an unclonable anti-counterfeiting system with triple-level security by using the inkjet printing technique, which can be authenticated by naked eyes, a portable microscope, and a fluorescence microscope. These labels are achieved by printing microscale quantum dot (QD) ink droplets on premodified substrates with random-distributed glass microspheres. Due to the unique capillary action induced by the glass microspheres, QDs in the ink droplets are deposited around the microspheres, forming microscale multicircular patterns. Multiple pinning of QDs at the three-phase contact lines appears during the evaporation of the droplet, resulting in the formation of a nanoscale labyrinthine pattern around the microspheres. The nanoscale labyrinth pattern and the microscale multicircular microsphere array, together with the printed macroscopic image, constitute a triple-level progressive anti-counterfeiting system. Moreover, the system is compatible with an artificial intelligence-based identification strategy that allows rapid identification and verification of the unclonable security labels.

The conductivity and conductivity‐temperature characteristics of the Sr(Fe1−xTixO3−δ system fired in air are studied by means of Mössbauer spectroscopy at room temperature and at 78 K. On the basis of quantitative analysis of the Fe4+ content in the solid solution, the concentrations of oxygen vacancies are calculated and the relationship between Fe4+ content and conductivity is found. It is also found that the turning points of conductivity and material constant B, as well as Fe4+ and the percentage of oxygen vacancies, occur at x=0.7 on the curve. When x=0.7, Fe3+ (II), which has never been reported before, disappears and the lattice parameters no longer vary with x. Besides Fe4+, Fe3+(II) is also a factor affecting the conductivity of this system.

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